If you were asked to quickly jot down a grocery list, would you type it into your smartphone? Or print it? Or use cursive writing? Assuming you’re a fan of pen/paper, logic would dictate you’d use the ...

Remember the days when you couldn't wait to get into second or third grade so you could write in cursive? Remember practicing the loops and swirls to make the capital L or the S? The Indiana ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Cursive writing is looping back into style in schools across the country after a generation of students who know only keyboarding, texting and printing out their words longhand.

LOS ANGELES -- Erica Ingber has something of a dark past when it comes to handwriting: The future elementary school principal got a C-minus in cursive in the fourth grade. But she's ready to follow ...

More than 20 states have reintroduced the practice of cursive writing after the Common Core standards dropped requirements that the skill be taught in public elementary schools in 2010, The New York ...

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An Indiana Department of Education report due this Friday may add fuel to the debate for the return of compulsory cursive writing instruction at Hoosier public and charter elementary schools. Or, it ...

Sen. Jean Leising once again wants cursive writing to be a required curriculum in every public, charter and state-accredited private elementary school in Indiana. Such instruction hasn’t been required ...

Not having been blessed with grandchildren, the news came to me a little late. I couldn’t believe it. “Yes,” said the mother of my great nephew, “it’s true. Schools will no longer teach cursive ...

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